GP Fanfare

A New Approach to Information Management for GPs

Data, data, everywhere!

• Referral forms• New and revised services• Pathways, guidelines and protocols• Alerts• Contact details

A shrinking NHS

• 85% and reducing• Increasingly tightly controlled by GP

commissioners• Information management getting easier

A growing independent & voluntary sector

• 15% and increasing• More and more choices• Controlled by no-one• Information management getting harder

Ever-increasing specialisation

• Specialities and sub-specialities• Niche services

A changing workforce

• More sessional and locum work• More part timers• Greater mobility• “Time out”• Sabbaticals• Maternity leave

Better-informed patients

• Often know what they want• Don’t know how to access what they want• Need the GP to be a “navigator”

Increasing pressure to do more in the consultation

• Matching PUNs (Patients’ Unmet Needs) with EARs (Easily Accessible Resources)

• Niche need with niche resource

The problems with web listings...

• Not comprehensive – independent and voluntary sector often poorly represented

• Keeping documents up to date - very administrator-dependent

• Not always easily searchable

GP fanfare

• Universal document repository• Any document tag-able (PDF, MS Word, MS

PowerPoint, MS Excel, PDF)• Searchable• NHS, independent and voluntary sectors• Free to all users

GP fanfare – viewer portal

• Secure – password controlled• Intuitive search facility• “Favourites” list• Directory of posters

GP fanfare – poster portal

• Secure – password controlled• Upload facility• Extensive list of tag terms – ability to add

more• Edit/delete facility

A spectrum of users

• GPs – established principals - new locums• Other clinical staff• Managers

• ?Main information portal• ?Sits alongside commissioners portal

and practice intranet

Screen shots

• The following screens show how documents are uploaded and searched for:

Uploading a document

Document search

• Simple search

Document search

• Advanced search